Subj : Packet Radio
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Raymundo
Date : Sat Apr 30 2005 02:15 am

  Re: Packet Radio
  By: Angus Mcleod to Raymundo on Fri Apr 29 2005 10:11 pm

I didn't mention being online now did I? I merely stated I could still get
my e-mail and that is far from "Being Online" now isn't it. I am on cable and
packet is by far millions of bits per seconds slower. Packet is still a
viable means of communication. 

Let's say an earthquake hits eastern USA and now all normal means of
communication is gone including much of our cellphone technology. What means
are you going to use CW? Maybe, but packet could and will be used by
emergency communications. 

Incidently I also stated "When my resources were not so great..." it was no
attempt to get illegal access to the Internet. The N0ARY gatewat and bbs was
and may very weill still be a link to and from (HAMs only) the Internet.

Raymundo/N8VZL


 >   Re: Packet Radio
 >   By: Raymundo to Angus Mcleod on Fri Apr 29 2005 03:02:00
 > 
 >  >  > Frankly, 'packet' was/is crap -- a waste of time, space, and bandwidth
 >  >  > Unfortunately.  Because it's *great* technology.....
 >  >
 >  > Not crap. I can remember when my resources were not so great and the Inte
 >  > was in its humble commecialization beginnings and I was one of few people
 >  > our area with Internet access. Dial-up of course, but once or few times m
 >  > phone was disconnected for lack of payment, but because of packet radio a
 >  > the N0ARY bbs and packet gateway into the Internet I could still do Inter
 >  > e-mail. Slower yes, but still effective. Packet radio was an aid to the n
 >  > existing Internet and hams have always been involved.
 > 
 > Don't take this wrong, but I could care less if you have internet access
 > or not.  I certainly don't see amateur radio as a mechanism for you to get
 > online on the cheap!
 > 
 > Like I said, packet radio is great technology.  Technology that is misused
 > by every jerk who thinks that it would be cool to put up a node and
 > forward 17-month old ARRL bulletins back and forth, around the world, over
 > and over again.  You only have to monitor some of the traffic on HF to
 > realise what a complete waste of time and bandwidth packet really is.
 > 
 > 


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